Calling a function in C without naming it

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My school has a controlled remote code execution environment to automatically grade the code we submit. Our target function is still execve which is part of libc. Because we know our code is compiled with ASan, we chose to leak the offset between printf, a function that is always allowed, and mmap, a function that gives us arbitrary assembly code execution.

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